A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon].

  • Christopher Heydon
Date:
1603
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Credit: A defence of judiciall astrologie, in answer to a treatise lately published by M. John Chamber / [Sir Christopher Heydon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mii’ afer c Sie = te * Ge te san ner entmetn atin era , : —_ : a + 7 ’ calpeta 7 > ; ‘ es 5 To the learned andunpartiall R ecader: quam tnlps vacare, Nam petere veiata folewts ant cue imprits dentes erravinsns, ant cum compulfi peccavimne’ Te vers GUS Pere palit vt td committeres , quod prinfquam faceres; peteres ut ignofa ceretur?] know he pleadeth for himfelfe;That paffion ss incident 10 the/e'contentioxs kinds of confurations : which pretenfe may better (erue'to excufe me, ifhis intollerable prowocation hath caufed me at any time.to forget my felfe towards him; then ie can any way free him from intemperancie.For firfthe cannot _ fay that he is prouoked by any manzand fecondly itis but too apparent,by the continued {treame of his extreame hatred, contempt and derifion, in euery paflage of his treatife , from will;then in paflion arifing from any offered: iniutie or’ofs fence: For pafsions are fhort , and fuddaine perturbations. of ~ the minde,whichhaue no long continuance , whereas I may well affirme his inueétiueto be nothing els, but a continired courfe of fetled bitterneffe againft an arte, whofe depth bes caufe he neuer founded, he thould not haue beené fo liberal; and pevemptorie'in cenfuringthe fame. So that he'muft ei ther make his whole inueétiue,a pafsion:, (in which eafe; the reader can beleeue nothing therein to proceed from reafon:y or els,to prevent this inference, he “nh acknoweledge the 44 dlenes of his excufejand-confeffe the iniury by bins offered'ta be pretended. Neither is it to be made-a-queftion; what men tranfported with irregularpaffiom are wontto commit, but what had bin fit and decent, for a: man of his learning, yeares; and grauitie, and fora Chriftian difputer.- But notwithtane ding all this iemay be he will reply that no mani hath canfeta finde himfelfe crieved in particular;fithin his preface he prod teeth; That all hix,peech alin The as he batts |pokewsn: generaliz ‘tieiagainft Al! Hprelovens, Yawvier Againff this oP that particalar Afrologeri}And'can he forvet that invhis r9.chapter Kepoiti ‘teth outone particular bya: Mathematical prefatein moh: dious tearmesjand irrefpetine manner 2. which dealine Ttake Hot tobpinPhep.-Aud furelyyhadhe defeendedinte the ere routs.ot particular Aftrole cers onely,they Had beene tyed in mnlhice-tobaieanfivered for. themfcluesy and Seager dees! & Pi alte is ST Te ap NR Ie A
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